New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals and Translations, Volume 4Sir R. Phillips and Company, 1820 - Voyages and travels |
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... rise to so many hypotheses relative to its formation . Strabo , Pliny , & c . were of opinion that the sea of Pontus was , previously to the voyage of the Argonauts , a great lake without an issue , but that the superabundance of its ...
... rise to so many hypotheses relative to its formation . Strabo , Pliny , & c . were of opinion that the sea of Pontus was , previously to the voyage of the Argonauts , a great lake without an issue , but that the superabundance of its ...
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... rise , on a summer's day ; our extasy is then complete . Here we forget our pains and our pleasures , absorbed by the magni- ficence and the variety of " nature's gayest , happiest attitude of things . " This capital , in changing its ...
... rise , on a summer's day ; our extasy is then complete . Here we forget our pains and our pleasures , absorbed by the magni- ficence and the variety of " nature's gayest , happiest attitude of things . " This capital , in changing its ...
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... rise by gentle acclivities covered with the vine , and interspersed with path- ways winding in every direction , which conduct to their summit . The prospect then embraces the Pont - Euxine and the Pro- pontis ; and at the same time ...
... rise by gentle acclivities covered with the vine , and interspersed with path- ways winding in every direction , which conduct to their summit . The prospect then embraces the Pont - Euxine and the Pro- pontis ; and at the same time ...
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... rise to a pleasing illusion ; followed by delight , at the magical aspect which nature assumes in this her retreat ; here she no longer , like a timid beauty , conceals F herself from the importunity of her lovers . The 16 Promenades ...
... rise to a pleasing illusion ; followed by delight , at the magical aspect which nature assumes in this her retreat ; here she no longer , like a timid beauty , conceals F herself from the importunity of her lovers . The 16 Promenades ...
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... rise to that multiplicity of contra- dictory treatises , which involve the subject in great darkness ; though it would be of essential importance to have it cleared up , because it contains the religious , political , and civil codes of ...
... rise to that multiplicity of contra- dictory treatises , which involve the subject in great darkness ; though it would be of essential importance to have it cleared up , because it contains the religious , political , and civil codes of ...
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